![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Klinenberg doesn’t mention past media reformers like Newton Minow, Action for Children’s Television, or the educational broadcasters, foundations, and politicians whose efforts in the 1960s created PBS and NPR. Its praise for the activists and academics who have pushed for low-power radio, tangled with the Federal Communications Commission in public hearings, and promoted libertarian policies for Internet governance may be merited, but there is no way to evaluate such praise with the evidence offered. Its arguments aren’t tested against rival possibilities. It is an investigative work, not a rant it is both intellectually serious and politically passionate, and so it challenges readers like me who have never been much impressed with the claim that media concentration is destroying the Republic.įighting for Air, nonetheless, wobbles between analysis and advocacy. But Klinenberg, a sociologist at New York University, has humanized and dramatized the argument by writing a book based on extensive original reporting. We have heard this rallying cry before, and we hear it again in Eric Klinenberg’s Fighting for Air. American democracy is lost unless citizen Davids do battle against the corporate media Goliaths. ![]()
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